MUNICH 1919

Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collpase of the Munich Council Republic by one of th e most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Klemperer provides a moving and thrilling account of waht turned out to be a decesi ve turning point in the fate of a nation, for the revolution of 1918-9 not only produced the first German democracy, it also heralde d the horrors to come.